2012-10-22, 05:37 AM
How would I get about banning bots from accessing my forum they are not spamming my forum I just want to block them from accessing the forum??
2012-10-22, 05:37 AM
2012-10-22, 07:48 AM
Use Javascript Bot Protection Plugin
http://mods.mybb.com/view/javascript-bot-protection2012-10-22, 10:19 AM
If your aim is to ban bots intended as crawlers/spiders, you should add a file named robox.txt into your Forum root with the following code:
Optionally, you can insert this line of code at the top of headerinclude template:
This will simply tell crawlers that every page of your Forum shouldn't be indexed.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /Optionally, you can insert this line of code at the top of headerinclude template:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />This will simply tell crawlers that every page of your Forum shouldn't be indexed.